Compilation of Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia
Department 672 - STATE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Chapter 672-14 - GRANTING, RENEWAL, AND REVOCATION OF VEGETATION MANAGEMENT PERMITS FOR OUTDOOR ADVERTISING
Rule 672-14-.01 - Purpose of Regulations

(1) Through the adoption of these rules, the State Transportation Board recognizes the need to balance the interests of maintaining the beauty of the State and a healthy environment for its citizens with the need to provide the citizens of the state and the traveling public with adequate information regarding places offering lodging, food, motor fuels services or any other service or products along the roads and highways of the State by allowing for the visibility of outdoor advertising signs erected and maintained along the highways of the state.

(2) The Department is authorized to promulgate specifications and guidelines to govern the Department's implementation of the provisions of this Chapter, and to set forth these specifications and guidelines in the Department's Manual of Guidance entitled "Vegetation Management at Outdoor Advertising Signs." Copies of these guidelines shall be provided to applicants upon written request to the Department's Office of Maintenance, 600 West Peachtree Street, N. W., One Georgia Center, 10th Floor, Atlanta, GA 30308.